Soapie0

I bought one of these about two years ago from Woot and I only put it in my camera at Christmas when I needed a clean memory card to put in the new camera I was giving my mother-in-law. I am sooooo upset that I didn't put it in earlier. I love it! It absolutely makes uploading (automatic) and sorting (automatic) pictures so much easier! Love, love, love my Eye-Fi card!

dscottboggs

Why the hell would you pay $20 for a 4gb memory card when you could get one for $6 at radio shack, and I'm sure even cheaper someplace else. Plus that's a name brand, and I'm sorry, I've never heard of "eyefi".

ugrasse2

Why would you pay $20 for a 4gb memory card when you could get one for $6 at radio shack, and I'm sure even cheaper someplace else. Plus that's a name brand, and I'm sorry, I've never heard of "eyefi".

Please, correct me if this is an incorrect analysis of this sale.

This card connects to your Wi-Fi network and uploads pictures to your computer or the internet, which the $6 special from RadioShack certainly won't do. There, you're corrected.

Here's what I want to know: Why would anyone but anything from RadioShack?

jensownzoo

In rare cases, Eye-Fi users have reported that the Nikon Coolpix P7000 will not function with Eye-Fi X2 cards. Eye-Fi has determined that the problem is a rare occurrence that has to do with the mechanical tolerance that varies between each Nikon Coolpix P7000 produced and the mechanical tolerances of each Eye-Fi X2 card produced. Unfortunately there is no none workaround or solution for customers experiencing this issue.

So, what are my options if I purchase one of these and it doesn't work in my camera?

joshobra

jensownzoo wrote:So, what are my options if I purchase one of these and it doesn't work in my camera?

http://support.eye.fi/cameras/ is a pretty good start. If I'm not mistaken, most of the newer cameras shouldn't have a problem. But there are exceptions so the link above is the place to start to see which cards will or will not work.

I'd like to add to the poster above that you don't necessarily need wifi to transfer the pics. You can directly connect to the card via the Eye-Fi app on your smartphone or tablet.

Eye-Fi in theory is really great if you'd like to share pictures when on the go. I could take a picture from my Nikon V1, the photo transfers to my phone, then share! Essentially, you don't require a cable or card reader anymore.

kennyminot

Why the hell would you pay $20 for a 4gb memory card when you could get one for $6 at radio shack, and I'm sure even cheaper someplace else. Plus that's a name brand, and I'm sorry, I've never heard of "eyefi".

Please, correct me if this is an incorrect analysis of this sale.

I hope this is a joke. Otherwise, I might suggest something called "reading," which is helpful to avoid such confusion.

ScottFromWyoming

I've been trying to get my workplace to buy these for the sales staff cameras. I design newspaper ads, and the sales guys will come in with photos of products or a store or whatever and whatever I'm doing, I have to stop and take the card out of their camera for them, plug it in, drag their crap onto my computer, etc etc. With this I could just keep on surfing Woot I mean "working."

jensownzoo

Yeah, that's were I pulled the info about it randomly not working in the P7000 -- no way to predict if it will work or not until you try it. Neither device would technically be defective, which is why I wanted to know my options if it didn't work my camera.

jeanmcguire

Why the hell would you pay $20 for a 4gb memory card when you could get one for $6 at radio shack, and I'm sure even cheaper someplace else. Plus that's a name brand, and I'm sorry, I've never heard of "eyefi".

Please, correct me if this is an incorrect analysis of this sale.

For the WiFi capability. It's the radio link you're paying for, not the memory.

I have several of them in "BirdCam" automatic cameras pointed at my bird feeders and birdbath. Pictures of birds (or squirrels, or blowing leaves, or whatever the BirdCam thinks is a good idea) are transmitted to a computer on my desk. So I can see what pictures I've taken of my birds immediately (best to date: a hummingbird caught in mid-air at the hummingbird feeder) without having to go out and disturb them.

In short, that was an incorrect analysis of the sale. Consider yourself corrected.

spiralduct

So if I'm at a party and I have this eye-fi card in my camera...can it upload to everyone's phones at the same time? How many people can connect to my eye-fi network at the same time? Is the card designed for this type of use? Or do I have to select one picture at a time and send it to one person at a time?
Thanks.

jeanmcguire

spiralduct wrote:So if I'm at a party and I have this eye-fi card in my camera...can it upload to everyone's phones at the same time? How many people can connect to my eye-fi network at the same time? Is the card designed for this type of use? Or do I have to select one picture at a time and send it to one person at a time?
Thanks.

From what I know: The card communicates with software running on the host computer. It sends its pictures to that, not to any other random device that asks for them.

At least, that's how I've been using mine. I have the "EyeFi Center" thingie running on the computer I use for this sort of thing (and various other control-type purposes; it's kind of the utility PC) and all of the photos from my BirdCams are transferred automatically.

woottoady

I bought the 8GB Pro last offer. I'm not impressed. The WiFi link is only good for unencrypted, password free, WiFi networks... so it's virtually unusable, unless you tether your cell in an open wifi mode. So even if you're at McD's, you're hosed because they require web authentication of their terms before you can access the 'net.

There's also no way to determine from the camera interface, the uploading status.

Finally, I had several "unable to write" situations, which required me to reboot my camera to acquire photos.

stevenstepheni

We have two (non-wireless) PCs and my husband and I would both want to access the same pictures on our camera, if I bought two can we both access the one card sitting in our camera? Are they interchangeable like that? Or is the reader programmed to read only its own card?

yesmyok

I've had a Pro for a while (bought retail). It worked well enough for a long time. I will say that data transfer was kind of slow, but it worked as advertised. For some reason that I have yet to investigate it stopped working. I suspect due to router change. I like these cards (when I get it working).

@spiralduct - if you want to share a party, then this will upload to a directory - say dropbox which you could share w/ everyone. They get the link and view.

@stevenstepheni... - I imagine they are interchangeable. I have used the eye-fi reader with other SD cards (non eye-fi) with no problem.

@woottoady - I'm not sure you need pw free wifi. I've always had pw protected network at home and this worked. I assigned it an IP and I'm guessing there was pw entry during setup (can't remember). I know this worked on WEP pw protected wifi.

Maybe I'll use this as impetus to figure out why mine stopped working today.

ptr

spiralduct wrote:So if I'm at a party and I have this eye-fi card in my camera...can it upload to everyone's phones at the same time? How many people can connect to my eye-fi network at the same time? Is the card designed for this type of use? Or do I have to select one picture at a time and send it to one person at a time?
Thanks.

It only knows about networks and devices you're told it about. Either a router, wifi PC/laptop, or similar. It will not randomly connect to whatever is out there.

Solution: Have it upload to a specified folder at the party location. Everyone can connect to that instead.
Or upload directly to flikr/facebook/etc.

ptr

woottoady wrote:I bought the 8GB Pro last offer. I'm not impressed. The WiFi link is only good for unencrypted, password free, WiFi networks... so it's virtually unusable, unless you tether your cell in an open wifi mode.

No. It will connect to a WEP/WPA network no problem. Mine (8gb Pro) has done so for the last 15 months/~4,000 pictures or so.

ptr

I do a lot of macro photography at home. This thing is a godsend for that.
Having the camera and object in exactly the right position, shoot pics, and they transfer to the PC with no intervention. I don't have to move the camera to take out the card.

And the save options work well. Define a different folder for each type of image. jpg here, RAW over there, video somewhere else. All folders correctly and automatically date stamped.

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